Ancient Aliens - The Top Ten Extraordinary Creatures

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

For more than a decade, Ancient Aliens has collected dozens of reports of encounters with strange and mysterious beasts. Now, Ancient Astronaut Theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos takes a look back at... The Top Ten Extraordinary Creatures we’ve investigated–creatures that just might provide compelling evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 A flying monster terrorizing West Virginia. Six to seven foot tall, gray in color, and two large red eyes. A giant beast that roams the Himalayas. The notorious Himalayan Yeti between five and six feet in height and leaving footprints that possibly show indications of a divergent big toe. And a sea creature that may be from another world. The Leviathan is sometimes described as a serpent or a crocodile or a dragon, but it lurks deep in the sea and comes up and terrifies the people. For more than a decade, ancient aliens has collected dozens of reports of bizarre encounters with strange and mysterious beasts.
Starting point is 00:00:47 Now, we're going to take a look at the top ten extraordinary creatures we've investigated. Creatures that just might provide definitive proof that Earth has been visited. by extraterrestrials. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes.
Starting point is 00:01:21 We are not alone. We have never been alone. Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Suclos. Throughout recorded history, there have been stories of strange beings inhabiting the earth, from bizarre hybrids that are half human and half animal, to giant sea monsters and fire-breathing dragons. But for ancient astronaut theorists, these are not just fanciful stories. They are eyewitness testimony to what could very well be alien entities. And believe it or not, there is evidence that the most famous moment,
Starting point is 00:02:04 monster reported in modern times may be a visitor from another world. At number 10 on our countdown of the top 10 extraordinary creatures, Bigfoot. Mount Shasta, Northern California, 1979. Author and UFO researcher Chris O'Brien is out for a hike when he encounters something terrifying in the dense forest. I was up on the side of Mount Shasta on the foothills, trying to get to the the base of the mountain. So dense and so tough.
Starting point is 00:02:38 As we're standing there, we heard this crashing sound. And then we heard the most blood-curdling combination of an elephant trumpeting, a lion roaring. And it was so loud it bounced off the foothills two miles away. That was probably the most terrified I've ever been in my life. And the next thing I knew, we were headed down the mountain, almost skidding off corners. Chris believes he had an encounter with the legendary Bigfoot,
Starting point is 00:03:09 also known as Sasquatch, witnesses report that these creatures walk up right like a human are covered in reddish-brown hair and are of enormous size. Here's Nick Redford, author of The Monster Book. Bigfoot is this sort of large, lumbering 8 to 9-foot-tall ape that predominantly lives in the Pacific Northwest. But we also get reports of these creatures all across the United States from the West Coast to the East Coast.
Starting point is 00:03:39 And estimates are there must be thousands of them. With so many reports of the notorious beast coming from all across the country, could it be that Bigfoot is real? Anthropologist Jeff Meldrum believes it's very possible. There is a growing body of data that suggests that there may actually be a biological species behind the legend of Bigfoot. of Bigfoot.
Starting point is 00:04:05 I've focused my attention on the footprints. And so in my laboratory now, I've amassed a collection of well over 200 examples of footprint casts from all over the United States. And that's provided a quite unique opportunity to very systematically assess this evidence. If the creature known as Bigfoot does exist, why is it so difficult to capture?
Starting point is 00:04:28 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest clues can be found by examining reports that link Bigfoot to otherworldly phenomena. There are a number of cases on record where Bigfoot has been seen in the same precise time frame as UFO activity has been reported. For example, there was a big wave of UFO activity in Pennsylvania, and people were actually reporting these large, shadowy, lumbering ape-like creatures walking out of the woods. Here's EarthFiles investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe. I had heard from sheriffs about a rancher in Montana who had gone out to go hunting,
Starting point is 00:05:09 comes around a ridge, has an eight-foot tall reddish-brown, primate-looking, long-haired creature standing right in front of him, picks up a 30-odd-6 and just fires. And the creature disappeared in a flash of light. If the Sasquatch, when a bullet is shot at, that it disappears in a flash of light, then what in the world are we dealing with? And what do they want?
Starting point is 00:05:38 Here is author David Childress. Many Sasquatch researchers have noted that there is a connection between Bigfoot activity and UFO activity. And in fact, some people have claimed they have seen a Bigfoot actually come out of a flying craft. So you have to wonder, is it possible that Bigfoot is actually actually an extraterrestrial?
Starting point is 00:06:05 High in the mountains of the Himalayas, there are accounts of another mysterious ape-like creature. Sightings of the beast have been reported for centuries, and the local people say that it is another worldly being, one that is protecting a hidden kingdom of the gods. At number nine in our countdown of the top 10 extraordinary creatures, the Yeti. Mount Makaloo.
Starting point is 00:06:31 Nepal, April 9th, 2019. Just a few miles south of the Tibetan border, a group of Indian soldiers are on patrol when they make a mysterious discovery. This is Andrew Collins, author of Origins of the Gods. An expedition from the Indian Army noticed very strange tracks in the snow. And when they looked at them, they realized
Starting point is 00:06:57 that each one was 32 inches in length. and 15 inches in width. And they came to the conclusion that they possibly belonged to the legendary Yeti. The Yeti are often described as half-man, half-ape creatures that are covered with hair. But while physical descriptions of the creature sound very similar to Bigfoot, researchers suggest the Yeti is something entirely different. The notorious Himalayan Yeti is... often described as being shorter between five and six feet in height and leaving footprints
Starting point is 00:07:37 that possibly show indications of a divergent big toe in a thumb-like fashion. So their footprints look quite distinct from the North American Sasquatch. The Yeti is said to be an extremely dangerous and ferocious monster. According to both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, this is because the Yetis are the guardians of a kingdom in the Himalayas, known as Shambala. Shambala is considered to be one of the abodes of the celestial gods of the region, where knowledge was imparted to the local population. This is author and investigative mythologist, William Henry.
Starting point is 00:08:19 The Yeti have this reputation of being guardians of Shambala, keeping away all those that are not pure of heart from entering into this holiest of holy places. For ancient astronaut theorists, the Yeti's role as a protector of Shambala suggests the creature has otherworldly origins. Despite the fact that we have numerous sightings and photographs of footprints, we don't have any actual DNA or bones of a Yeti. And the question is, why is that? And one answer that's been proposed is that the Yeti could in fact be an interdimensional creature capable of disappearing into other realms. The next extra-examination. The extraordinary creature on our list is believed to be hiding in the deep cold waters of Scotland.
Starting point is 00:09:04 It has been reported by witnesses for nearly 1,500 years. But how is it that in all that time this giant lake monster has never been caught? Well, according to some researchers, it's because this is no earthly being, but one that can travel between dimensions. number eight on our countdown of the top 10 extraordinary creatures, the Loch Ness Monster. Scotland, April 21st, 1934. The Daily Mail newspaper publishes an astonishing photograph. It allegedly shows a long-necked creature emerging from the rippling waters of Loch Ness.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Many people believe the images of the famous and elusive Loch Ness Monster. Here is cryptozoologist, Ken Gerhard. The Lochness monster affectioned referred to as Nessie is easily the most iconic of all aquatic monsters, with thousands of reports on record. Most people typically describe one or several large dark humps surfacing in the water, although some people have also reported a very long periscope-like neck with a small head attached. Nessi first gained notoriety in 1933 when sightings began to surface as a result of a road being constructed along the side of the lock.
Starting point is 00:10:26 But accounts actually date back to the year 565 AD when great St. Columbus actually repelled a great water beast that was seen in the River Ness. One of the things that we found is that sometimes there's a cluster of sightings, and then there won't be any reports for decades. And if there was a colony of these animals, we surely should have got evidence of their existence.
Starting point is 00:10:53 Is there really a really? a creature moving deep within the waters of Loch Ness. And if so, what is it? According to ancient astronaut theorists, it's possible the Loch Ness Monster is not of our world. The story of the Loch Ness Monster reminds me of a UFO sighting that happened north of Nashville back in the 90s. A man sees a giant UFO that's firing at a creature
Starting point is 00:11:20 on his deck that looks like he calls it the one-footed snorting. because it looked like an elephant's trunk with one foot. In his police report, the man described how the snorkel monster spun itself into a vortex or a ball of light and disappeared. One wonders if this is evidence of a portal that this creature was opening up. And in fact, if this creature and the Loch Ness monster are part of the same family of creatures that travel the world through these portals or gateways,
Starting point is 00:11:53 It's possible that the Loch Ness monster somehow came from another world. A key tenet of the ancient astronaut theory is that thousands of years ago, exterrestrials performed genetic experimentations on planet Earth. And evidence of this can be found in the form of strange hybrids that were documented in numerous cultures, like a bloodthirsty creature described in Greek mythology that was created by an otherworldly being. at number seven on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary creatures, the Minotaur.
Starting point is 00:12:32 The Greek island of Crete. According to the stories of ancient Greece, this land was once home to a terrifying monster called the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a creature that was half bull and half human. And the Minotaur was this incredibly violent and unwieldy beast. This legend of the Minotaur is one of the most important and prevalent legends of the ancient Greek mythology. One day, King Minos of Crete angers the god Poseidon. Poseidon, being angry at Minos, casts a spell over his wife, Pacafia, that she might fall in love with this great white bull.
Starting point is 00:13:16 And through the mating of the bull, the Minotaur is born, and he is ferocious, and he feeds on the flesh. of humans. Eventually, it had to be placed within this structure known as the labyrinth. The legend of King Minus and the Labyrinth is something that was seen to be a fable until the explorations of the palace in Crete. Here is author and researcher Kathleen McGowan. At the very beginning of the 20th century, a British researcher and archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans,
Starting point is 00:13:55 discovered the ruins of the palace of King Minos. But it's not just a palace, it became very clear upon looking at the structure that this was the original labyrinth. If the structure found in Crete really is the fabled labyrinth of King Minos, then is it possible that the story of the Minotaur is based on actual events?
Starting point is 00:14:19 Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, but suggest that what What is described in the legend is not literally a bull mating with a human. The story of the Minotaur is an amazing story about the creation of a hybrid being. And what's interesting about this is that Daedalus, this genius engineer, crafts this cow-shaped container that Minos' wife is to enter into this container and mate with this sacred bull. The Minotaur is the result of that mating. So when we peel back the layers of this story, we can easily interpret this as some kind
Starting point is 00:14:55 of genetics lab that's being created here for gene splicing. It's fascinating to think that my Greek ancestors could have actually encountered a hybrid creature like the Minotaur. But believe it or not, there might be another hybrid creature living among us today. This one is described as appearing human, but with glowing red eyes and burying. like wings and is often witnessed in connection with UFOs. At number six on our list, the Mothman. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, November 15th, 1966.
Starting point is 00:15:35 Two young couples are driving down a dark road outside of town. As they pass by an old building, they are startled by a frightening sight. Here is Jeff Wamsley, owner of the Mothman Museum. They claimed to have seen a large winged creature, six to seven foot tall, gray in collar, and two large red eyes. They said this creature flew over their car and followed him back into town.
Starting point is 00:16:06 That was the beginning of the mothman sightings. The harrowing account was picked up by local press and incited panic across town. Over the next year, residents were terrorized by encounters by encounters with the winged monster. There were over 100 reported sightings to the local authorities. You had some people who claimed to have seen it
Starting point is 00:16:28 while driving in their car. You had other people seeing it in their front yard. The strange sightings attracted the attention of local journalist, Mary Hire. Mary Hire was just a normal, legitimate journalist investigating your average stories around town. And then she was suddenly plunged into this issue involving the moth man. Mary interviewed dozens of people who encountered the moth man.
Starting point is 00:16:58 But soon after she began her investigation, she was visited by a group of mysterious government agents known only as the men in black. Mary Hire was visited by men in black who told her to stop writing about the moth man and all these strange encounters. Stop writing about this. You don't want to be involved in this. Here is Nick Pope, a former member of the UK Ministry of Defense.
Starting point is 00:17:28 The men in black are the cleanup squad. They are the ones who hide the traces, hide the footsteps, so to speak, of the alien presence. Or phenomena such as the moth man. Could it be that the creature known as the mothman was an otherworldly being? One that the alleged men in black were attempting to cover up. Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes,
Starting point is 00:17:55 and suggest further evidence of extraterrestrial visitation can be found in ancient stories of beasts that could breathe fire. As an ancient astronaut theorist, I'm always looking out for examples of what I call misunderstood technology. Our ancestors didn't have the same frame of reference that we have today. So when they wrote about flying serpents
Starting point is 00:18:27 that were breathing fire, were they talking about real-life monsters or extraterrestrial spacecraft? At number five on our countdown of the top 10 extraordinary creatures, dragons. Throughout history, there have been tales of dragons, powerful, fire-breathing creatures that flew through the air. Virtually every culture has a legend about dragons
Starting point is 00:18:52 were dragon beings that came from the sky around England. The Celts revere the dragon, and the winged dragon, to this day, is the symbol for whales. In North America, we learn of the winged serpents. It must be that there was a common source. We have stories all around the world of flying dragons and smoke and thunder and fire, flying around, carrying people with them. So how would all these different places that are unconnected with each other, have these similar stories.
Starting point is 00:19:26 So is it possible in these cases that these flying dragons are really a mistaken identity of airships and things like that? Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that dragons are not mythical creatures, but descriptions of an advanced, even extraterrestrial technology? Perhaps further clues can be found in the legend of child China's Yellow Emperor, who founded Chinese civilization nearly 5,000 years ago. According to Chinese mythology, the Yellow Emperor, also known as Huang Di, arrived on the back of a dragon.
Starting point is 00:20:06 This is Dominic Steiavoo, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Yellow Emperor, Huang Di, is a culture hero. He's an originator of Chinese civilization and culture. And one version of the story has a dragon emerging, and then the Yellow Emperor jumps on the dragons back, and the dragon ascends up to heaven. To this day, the people of China celebrate the arrival of the Yellow Emperor with a traditional dragon dance. Curiously, dragons are also prominent in the creation myths of Central America,
Starting point is 00:20:44 where various civilizations worshipped a dragon-like being, known by various names. The Aztecs called this flying deity Ketsukotl. Here's Jonathan Young, founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives, and Eric von Danikin, author of Chariots of the Gods. Quetzal Khadol was a creator god. He brought the rain, he brought water, he brought civilization, he brought the arts. This was the creator divinity for the Aztec culture.
Starting point is 00:21:16 It was a flying serpent. It was a dragon. The dragon is world. Because again, in Central America, in Viramosa, there is a stone called the Dragon Monolite. You see a man sitting inside the dragon. You see the form of the dragon, with his open mouth like a snake.
Starting point is 00:21:36 And you see the man is sitting inside, he has a helmet on. So the story of the dragon has come around the world from China to Central America. Now, from the ancient astronaut perspective, an astronaut perspective, the dragon was never a dragon. It was a flying craft. It is only natural that our ancestors would describe these things as living creatures with fire
Starting point is 00:22:04 and smoke. They had never seen anything like it before. So in my opinion, dragons were an extraterrestrial craft. Dragons are just one of countless examples of misunderstood technology that can be found in the accounts of our ancestors. In fact, you can find many in the pages of the Holy Bible, like a terrifying sea monster described in the book of Job that had glowing eyes and ribs made out of gleaming bronze. At number four on our countdown, the Leviathan. The Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of years ago, these picturesque waters were said to be the home
Starting point is 00:22:49 of one of the most extraordinary creatures ever encountered. This gigantic beast was described in the Bible's Old Testament. It's known as the Leviathan. The Leviathan is sometimes described as a serpent or a crocodile or a dragon, but it lurks deep in the sea and comes up and terrifies the people. Leviathan in biblical terms is considered this sea monster of behemoth's proportions, Huge. Now, in the book of Job, the behemoth all of a sudden is seen and witnessed. And the way Job describes it, it's not a biological entity that we are familiar with today. It is described
Starting point is 00:23:35 that it has skin of metal and ribs made out of gleaming bronze. Its limbs like bars of iron. Its back is made of shields in rows, shut up closely as with a seal. And then Job even describes that it is like some type of an animal, but what animal breathes smoke and fire and has glowing eyes. Might the eyewitness account of the Leviathan found in the book of Job actually be a description, not of an underwater creature, but of a misunderstood technology, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest. Today we have videos of UFOs or UAPs
Starting point is 00:24:26 that are coming and going from the ocean. We call them transmedium craft. This is exactly what we see in these ancient myths about the Leviathan. So based on this, that opens up the possibility that the Leviathan is also some kind of an ancient, misunderstood UFO technology. Some of the most mysterious entities of the ancient world can be found in the Islamic holy book called the Quran.
Starting point is 00:24:52 These strange beings are described as shapeshifters made of smokeless fire, and some believe they inhabit alternate dimensions. Number three on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary creatures, the Jin. Karachi, Pakistan, 2016. A five-year-old mother of three is taken to a local physician after displaying increasingly bizarre behavior. She speaks in gibberish and complains of being plagued by disturbing visions and strange voices. Her family claims she is possessed by supernatural beings known as the Jin. Here is Sabina Maglioco, an anthropologist from the California State University at Northridge.
Starting point is 00:25:37 In Islam, there is a class of beings known as gin. The gin are angelic and yet they are not of the ethereal realm. They are of the earthly realm. They're shape-shifters. They can help you. They can also trick you. Amir Hussein is professor of theological studies from Loyola Meramount University.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Jinn literally means to hide or to conceal. And so you can think of a gin as a being who is concealed from the senses. They have all sorts of interesting properties. The gin can change. shapes. The Quran talks about the jinn being able to take animal form. But it also takes on the notion in Arabic of like possession. Someone who is possessed is called Mishnun. They literally have a jinn inside them. In the Islamic texts, the jinn appear only when they want to be seen, often influencing humans by whispering instructions to them while invisible. The jinn are described as
Starting point is 00:26:41 shadowy beings that are often malevolent in their intentions. They are supposed to have had magic abilities, supernatural powers, and humans greatly feared the gin. Stories of encounters with the gin have been reported for centuries and millions of people continue to believe in their existence. But if the gin really do exist, could they be extraterrestrials? Here is Rabbi Ariel Bar Zadok, founder of the Kosher Torah School. In order to understand the nature of these entities, we must understand that in many ways they're the intermediary race.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Like human beings, they eat and drink. Like human beings, they sexually procreate. But like the angels, they can shape shift, fly, and know the future. This is Lynn Picnett, co-author of The Forbidden Universe. The interesting thing about the gin is that technically they're neutral, they're neither good nor evil. But they resent human beings because they were there enjoying the earth
Starting point is 00:27:47 and along came human beings and usurped to them. Is it possible that alien beings known as the Jin preceded humans on planet Earth and have been interacting with us for thousands of years? Perhaps further clues can be found
Starting point is 00:28:03 by examining ancient Hebrew texts that describe the role of Jin in building King Solomon's temple. According to the story, King Solomon was given a powerful ring that allowed him to communicate with the gin. In the story, Solomon prays to God, and instantly the Archangel Michael manifests as if out of thin air. And Michael says that he's going to give Solomon a power that has never before been seen on earth and never again shall be. And he produces for him a ring with a signet seal that would enable Solomon to control the gin from that point forward.
Starting point is 00:28:43 The gin were said to be master architects, and King Solomon used his ring to compel them to help build his temple. The gin also gave Solomon a mysterious tool that could cut through stone called a Shamir. Now the Shamir, it's described in traditional literature, is this little worm that you put on the stone and it would cut it precisely. The Shamir was a quote unquote worm that could cut. cut and drill through even the hardest of stones rather with ease. What if the Shamir was some type of laser-cutting device? As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the fact that the Jin possessed a device like the Shamir
Starting point is 00:29:27 suggests that they were not ethereal beings, but otherworldly creatures that have remained present on Earth to this day. When we look at various encounters with beings like the Jin, we have to be open to the possibility that these are examples of misunderstood extraterrestrials, that they're a different class of being that we're ordinarily thinking about when we think extraterrestrial. They come from outside of our normal frequency realm. Tales of fairies and elves can be found throughout history and all around the world. As far as I'm concerned, these are eyewitness accounts of the same beings
Starting point is 00:30:08 that have been described by modern-day alien abductees. And according to the people of Ireland, there reside in hidden realms right here on Earth. Number two on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary creatures, the she. Ireland. According to ancient folklore, this lush green island in the North Atlantic is home to mysterious otherworldly creatures known as the she or fairy folk. Here's Marty Mulligan, author of The Beginning of The Beginning of the Story. of the Tuatha de Danan. To we believe in fairies and leprechauns in Ireland,
Starting point is 00:30:47 absolutely 100%. You ask any Irish person. We don't call them the fairies, it's the she. And all of our stories said they came from the sky world. They went underground, they went to rest. According to ancient folklore, the she inhabit the massive earthen mounds that dot the Irish countryside,
Starting point is 00:31:07 and they've been part of the Irish culture for centuries. Fairies and leprechauns and all that sort. leprecons and all that sort of stuff. Like, there are too many people that kind of laugh and joke about it at times. But it's knowledge that had been passed down for thousands and thousands of years. While modern-day representations of the fairy folk often depict benevolent sprightly creatures, traditional Irish notions of fairies are much different. They are considered powerful and sometimes dangerous beings.
Starting point is 00:31:33 You don't want to mess with the ishi. They're not cute, cuddly little fairies like we typically think of today. that these are very extraordinarily powerful beings that dwell underneath the earth. While modern stories of the she often refer to these beings as fairies or elves, the Irish know them by yet another name, the Shining Ones. This is because, according to ancient Irish stories, they are the descendants of a race of luminous beings that came down from the sky more than 3,000 years ago, called the Tuatha de Danan.
Starting point is 00:32:08 This is Jenny Butler, assistant professor. of study of religions from University College Court. There is a description in the mythological material in the early Irish literature of the Tuohad de Danin arriving in cloud ships, arriving in dark clouds, and landing on a mountain. Irish legends describe the Tuatha de Danan as godlike beings who wielded powerful weapons.
Starting point is 00:32:37 But a conflict with humans led them to find a new hope. them to find a new home in a mystical underground realm. It was agreed that the Tuatha Danan would go beneath the earth inside mounds of earth that were known as she. These acted as these doorways into a realm where forever after the Tuatha Danan would live. After this event, the Tuatha de Danan became known as the she, just like the mounds they inhabit. But could the she really exist? In 1969, French astronomer Jacques Valle published a groundbreaking book on unexplained
Starting point is 00:33:18 phenomena called Passport to Magonia, from folklore to flying saucers. In it, he proposed that historical accounts of fairies and other strange beings could be the same phenomenon today that is interpreted as extraterrestrial. Jacques did what I think is one of the most important books about the UFO phenomena, trying to understand of all the things in the sky and on the ground through history that have either been painted, photographed, caught on radar, what are they and why are they? According to Valle, the strange beings that humans have reported encountering for thousands of years known in Ireland as the she may in fact be interdimensional.
Starting point is 00:34:09 Here is Bill Burns, co-author of The Day After Roswell. Valle believes that from the time of the Big Bang, if it created one universe, why couldn't it create a multitude of universes? Might there be connections between the different universes where elements from the other universe cross into our universe and where elements of our universe cross into theirs. That would explain how people coming upon the she might not just see an underground civilization, but they might see an interdimensional civilization. We've reached the end of our countdown of the top 10 extraordinary creatures, and this last one absolutely blows my mind. It's one that everyone is familiar with and is found
Starting point is 00:35:03 in oceans around the world. But scientists believe it could possess extraterrestrial DNA. At number one, the octopus. History books are filled with sensational accounts of terrifying sea monsters like the Hydra and the Cracken. Some are convinced they exist, while others dismiss them as purely mythological. But perhaps the most extraordinary sea creature
Starting point is 00:35:31 is one that can be found in every ocean and is undeniably real. The Octopus. Kristen Fisher is an associate professor of biological studies at Cal State, LA. The octopus is a really fascinating organism. The octopus is brain instead of just being centered in its head like ours is actually distributed.
Starting point is 00:35:53 There are these brains in their arms as well as the central brain in their head. This is Tom Iliff, professor of marine biology from Texas A&M University at Kavana. An octopus can certainly manipulate its environment. It builds its own homes by piling rocks and shells on top of it. Octopuses are very adept at camouflaging themselves by changing their color to that of their surroundings. Really, really quickly, I mean almost it looks instantaneous to us.
Starting point is 00:36:26 It can also manipulate its body into different shapes to imitate other animals. This extraordinary creature has three hearts and nine brains. Some scientists have speculated that, in the absence of humans, the animal best suited to evolve into the dominant species on the planet, is not another primate, but the octopus. For many scientists, these creatures are truly unlike any other organism on Earth. As scientists study Octopi, they're amazed at what they're finding, and they're not seeing a connection to some ancestor of the octopi.
Starting point is 00:37:04 It's like these creatures were brought here in their entirety and put into our oceans. Could it be that the octopus didn't originate on Earth, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? Astrobiologist Dr. Chandra Witramisinga believes it's entirely possible. In March 2018, he and 32 other scientists published a scientific paper that caused his sensation in the press. In it, they suggest the octopus contains extraterrestrial DNA. Here is astrobiologist Chandra Wickramsinga. What we find in the octopus genome is just almost uncanny.
Starting point is 00:37:45 It has something like 50,000 genes. Compare that with the human, which has something like 25,000 genes. So the octopus in many ways appears, be more complex. than the human. And how did this complexity manifest itself? There's ample evidence to suggest that he came from outside. According to Dr. Wickramcinga, the DNA of the octopus didn't originate on Earth,
Starting point is 00:38:14 but was transported here through meteors or comets. The process is known as panspermia. Michiocaku is a theoretical physicist. The panspermia theory cannot be dismissed. And one possibility is, that our solar system is like one big gigantic ping pong table, with pingpongs that is asteroids carrying DNA going back and forth between the various planets.
Starting point is 00:38:41 Is it possible that the octopus didn't originate on Earth but was brought here from somewhere else? Perhaps further clues can be found in mythological accounts from across the ancient world that describe aquatic deities who resemble the octopus. All the way around the world, There are traditions to do with a creator god in the form of an octopus. For instance, in ancient crepe, there are numerous images and paintings of an octopus with bizarre large eyes.
Starting point is 00:39:16 In Ecuador, at a place called Mantas, were these bas-relif carvings of this bizarre octopus deity. We have to ask ourselves, is it possible that the ancient, were aware that the octopus is truly alien to this planet. If we could one day prove the presence of alien DNA in the octopus, it would radically change the accepted history of our planet. But as far as I'm concerned, each of the extraordinary creatures on our list, from Bigfoot to dragons to the mysterious gin,
Starting point is 00:39:53 provide evidence that exoterrestrials came to Earth thousands of years ago and are still visiting today.

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